[Sca-cooks] Onion Juice - and Saffron measurements

[Stefan li Rous]

Ysabeau commented:
<<< Again, while checking out the spices, I found saffron on the  
bottom shelf
for $6 a gram and at the top of the shelf for $18 for 1.25  
grams...what a
price difference! >>>

Don't buy it from the grocery store if you can avoid it. You can get  
much better saffron at much better prices from some of the mail-order  
places.

I buy my saffron, which is a very, deep, rich red from the Pepperer's  
Guild. There prices are much better as well. I'm afraid I don't  
remember though what I paid, off the top of my head. I buy some  
saffron from them each year I am at Pennsic, but they also fill mail  
orders, but since they are a non-profit volunteer group I've heard it  
can take them a while to get an order shipped out to you.

merch-spices-msg  (35K)  7/ 3/05    Spice merchants. Reviews and  
recommendations
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/merch-spices-msg.html

Also some info on saffron:

saffron-art       (16K)  8/11/97    How to buy and select saffron by  
Tony Hill.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/saffron-art.html
saffron-msg       (63K)  6/10/04    Types of saffron. period uses.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/saffron-msg.html

Stefan
(Very P.O.ed. Ordered a new digital camera 9 days ago for Gulf Wars  
off the web (YellowBeePhoto.com) and it took them until today for  
them to email me and say that it is 'back-ordered'. Now it is too  
late to order from another web place.)
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